ALL. ABOUT. SKILLS.

YO! STREET ZONE is a professional football skills coaching organisation based in Margate, Kent. We specialise in teaching skills, ball control, freestyle and panna football, helping football players to be more confident and creative with the ball. We believe that football skills coaching is a vital ingredient in developing the footballers of tomorrow!

​As one of the only organisations in the UK to specialise in this unique style of football, we provide a wide range of high quality skills coaching services for football clubs, academies and schools, as well as in-depth 1 to 1 coaching to improve technical ability. We also offer action-packed football themed birthday parties and specialise in delivering first-class panna events across the country with our very own panna arena.

Since our foundation in 2012, we have been nurturing and developing homegrown football talent, ​forming the only street football crew of its kind in the UK and providing some of the UK's best panna players and football tricksters for events, adverts and marketing campaigns.

THE SKILLS WE COACH

The impressive skills we coach originate from street football which is the urban take on football and in fact the birth place of many great footballers today - Neymar, Messi, Pogba, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Mbappé, Zidane and many more! This exciting type of football focuses on style and technique and is all about fast feet, mastering total ball control and finding ways to be creative with the ball to get past any opponent. So the skills we coach are not only spectacular and fun to watch but also highly effective in match situations in both grassroots football and futsal.

​'Panna' is one of the best known genres of street football. 'Panna' is a technique, in which a player passes the ball through an opponent's legs in a skilful way - in other words, to 'nutmeg' them. This type of football has become an increasing trend among kids and adults and especially in recent years the internet and social media is full of videos and clips showcasing incredible panna skills.

OUR CREW

As the biggest panna crew in the UK, our YO! STREET ZONE crew consists of talented male and female Panna Players who are available for hire for your event, advert or social media campaign. With a wide age range and a great variety of different street football styles and personalities, you are sure to find the perfect Panna Player for your event or advert. Our Panna Players can be hired as individuals or in a group.

All of our Football Skills Tricksters are experts in their field and can demonstrate impressive street football skills, perform fancy 'pannas' or 'nutmegs' and engage and entertain your audience with fast feet and dazzling skills!

HOW IT ALL STARTED

"Yofi moved from London to Margate, a seaside town an hour and half east of the city and most known for its revived amusement park, Art galleries, and lazy beach days. Little did he know he’d soon be turning Margate into a hub for street football in the UK."- Urban Pitch magazine

"Growing up in South-London, where street football was a big part of my life, I was always outside playing in the courts with my friends. The football we played was street but it was not about getting nutmegs or doing fancy groundmoves or impressive skills. It was just hardcore street where everybody just played until the sun went down. I loved it in London but in 2008 I moved with my family to Margate - a British seaside town that had been hit hard by the financial crisis with many shops being closed and many houses looking run-down. To be honest, at first I hated it. I was looking for something to occupy myself with which is when I started watching YouTube videos of skills and football skills tutorials asking myself how I could learn this. The first move I taught myself was the 'Knee Akka'. I spent hours on that move, trying to perfect it. Almost every day I would go to the local park or seafront and work on new skills. Very soon, kids started coming up to me, wanting to learn some of the tricks. As a result, they respected me and began looking up to me.

After meeting the local youth group 'Hang10' in Dane park, they saw the positive impact I had on the youth and wanted to work with me. So we set up a 3-hour session every Tuesday at a warehouse they rented for a couple of months. 'Hang10' are funded by the council and just didn’t have funding to continue our football skills sessions which were free for everyone to attend. After running this first project, I realised that I was not only passionate about street football, but I also loved teaching the skills I had and enjoyed working with young people. It was great to pass on my skills and share my passion and love for the game with others. That’s why I then started 'YO STREET ZONE'.

Today 'YO STREET ZONE' is a professional football skills coaching organisation and one of the only organisations in the UK to specialise in this unique style of football. Locally we run workshops for many football clubs to improve the confidence and creativity of their players. More and more coaches and trainers are starting to realise that skills coaching is a crucial element in developing great players. We also run our very own weekly Football Skills Club in Thanet and in 2017 we launched our Football Skills Academy to nourish and develop the best panna players in the UK. Now, we have the biggest street football panna crew in the country with lots of incredibly talented players! Our top players get the chance to compete in panna and street football competitions all around the world. We also organise panna events with our panna arena and hire out panna players for various events and adverts.

My dream is to continue to create homegrown talent and to one day have our own hub, where young people can get together, giving them a focus and positive influence, helping with team-building and getting more people involved with street football!"